18. Fending Off Satan With Pain
One day after beating themselves senseless, Margaretta told her followers that more pain was needed to ward off Satan. She then grabbed an iron wedge and began bludgeoning her brother, while her followers resumed beating each other up. Margaretta then announced that her dead mother’s ghost ordered her to sacrifice herself, but her sister stepped up and insisted that she be sacrificed instead.
Margaretta accepted and began beating her sister with an iron wedge. The rest of the congregation joined in, and soon, the sister was dead. When a follower protested, Margaretta assured her that her sister would rise from the dead in three days.